Phone scammers arrested after one forgets ‘fraud manual,’ phones at convenience store

What a genius.  how did these idiots ever manage to scam anyone?

Step 5 - Don't leave evidence in convenience store,

You forgot to add this step didn't you Mr Hideo?

Caught based upon luck. 

Targetting the elderly needs to be punished by very long imprisonment.

Kind of messy that "manual"...

Yknow the thing I find striking here, is the presence of mind of the worker. Didn’t just keep it aside as noneofmybusiness or run behind the scammer to promptly hand it over. Good job kid.

When the store manager discovered the forgotten items, he immediately contacted police

This man deserves a promotion & a medal. Well done, sir!

Actually, I think he may have indirectly saved lives because some of the elderly are known to have committed suicide after their life's savings are gone.

More like a 'cheat sheet' than a 'manual.'

Scammed by the scammer himself! Good work scammer!

These types are their own type of scum. Preying on the elderly like that...

Lock 'em up and throw away the key for a long time.

Lock em up AND make them work for a long long time with all the money (at least 10X what they ripped off) to help those poor oldies. Scumbags.

This is a good example to say fraudulent matters are ellaborated from "intelligent" guys who can build up well manuals and contracts. Just to say how to find these "intelligent ways" are fake is when you have a higher level to hit on it's fake or a light of wisdom on you, in your old ages, most of the targets are prepared for old people or people who want to invest to get more money. Much details the police and the tribunals in Japan have, but I don't know if it's publicly noticed.

So this picture and the proven successful instructions are made available over the Internet by JT for more artists to scam the elderly. Good one.

The one on the left says laws have changed and the person is calling in regards to reimbursing the overpayment.

The one on the right says the person is charge of an investigation involving the unauthorized wiring of money from a bank account under the name of so and so (recipient of the call.)

This guy is stupid! I can understand leaving the original copy in the photocopier, but a bag of mobile phones!!!!!!?????

"Phone scammers arrested after one forgets ‘fraud manual,’ phones at convenience store"

Har!

"The leader of the group, identified as, Hideo Miki, 44, was arrested for ordering the members to scam an 82-year-old woman in Chiba this February, a case the police had been investigating after she reported that she was deceived into sending two of her cash cards to a man who told her he had to refund her medical expenses."

These jerks need to be made to work to reimburse their victims several times over and kept off the streets for a good long time.

Why did they release the photos to the public. Now everyone has the so called scam manual!!

Ahahaha! OMG! Tho l this is such a funny AND satisfying read. Thanks for the good laughs JT.

Well now! This is a most entertaining read. As far as the four that were busted. One word. Karma.

I hope the cops can trace where the money has gone and try to get it back, and hopefully they can reimburse the victims. if not send these clowns to a hard labour camp where they can break rocks day in day out, which they get payed 1500 yen per tonne of rock they crush from the mining co, and then they can pay back victims all of the yen that was extracted from there bank accounts.

I think the J news should have censored the central part of these letters so no one can get any ideas about copying them.

Kind of messy that "manual"...

Looks like it's been finger dusted to me